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[brad.mugleston at comcast.net]

On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:

> On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > On Sat, 17 Dec 2005, Mark Knecht wrote:
> >
> > > On 12/17/05, brad.mugleston at comcast.net <brad.mugleston at comcast.net> wrote:
> > > > I've spend a few hours copying and deleting pictures off of my
> > > > hard drive to CD's.  I still have no more space than when I
> > > > started.  Last time this happened I found everything in a trash
> > > > file but the only trash file I can find is empty.
> > > >
> > > > Suggestions?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Brad Mugleston, KI0OT
> > > >
> > >
> > > Use df to see what partition is full. You can use du -h in different
> > > directories to get to where it's being used.
> > >
> > > If you can find the app filelight for your version, or you want to
> > > build it from source, you can get a nice piture of where things are
> > > being used.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps,
> > > Mark
> > >
> > Thanks - problem is it's one large directory on one large drive
> > (160G drive, one directory /photos).  With two daughters using
> > high resolution digital cameras it fills up fast.
> >
> > This drive is just a linux file server, nothing fancy loaded on
> > it - no graphical window program.  Can I use firelight on my
> > desktop to view the server?
> >
> > Brad
> >
>
> Sure, filelight could view that although if it's as simple as you say
> then du -h in the directory that has the photos should prove or
> disprove that this is where the disk space is being consumed.
>
> Have you checked your temp directories? Also look at /var/log, etc.,
> for stuff over there. If you've been running the server for a while
> then the log files could be taking up more space than you think.
> Recently I had a driver update cause one machine here at home to start
> spewing millions of lines into a log file and got into a bit of a
> problem for awhile.
>
> Good luck finding the culprit.
>
> - Mark
>
Mark,

Thanks for the information - Got into it tonight and now I've
only got 8% used so - didn't do anyting that I know about so?????

Anyway, I've got some space available, then the photo shooting
begin.

Brad